In an incredibly cute and really cool bit of science fact, an international non-governmental organisation has trained rodents to find buried bombs as well as the ability to sniff out tuberculosis. Read more >>

31 years is a long time for a hotel to keep the décor the same. But things are a little different aboard the ISS, where lab rats have been shuttled back and forth from Earth in the same modular boxes since 1983. Now, NASA has unveiled a new rat pod—and it could help us learn how to keep human passengers healthy as we travel further and further into space.